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00:00Israel continues air and ground operations in Lebanon and strikes in Gaza.

00:05Refugee camp got hit with 18 dead, including children.

00:07Still no ceasefire in sight.

00:10MEPs have held a debate on the crisis facing the European automotive industry.

00:20After dairy products, China decided to impose sanctions on European brandy, raising duties

00:25by up to 39 percent in retaliation for the electric car tariffs.

00:31The International Monetary Fund warns about European complacency and urges competitiveness.

00:43The Israel army struck Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, as it continues

00:48ground and air operations in the area.

00:52And 185 Hezbollah targets have been struck, with soldiers on the ground killing members

00:56of the group in close-quarter combat, according to Israeli officials.

01:02The strike was a response to recent rocket attacks by Hezbollah during the night.

01:06The acting leader of the Iran-backed militant group, Sheikh Naim Qasem, claims that Hezbollah's

01:11military capabilities remain intact despite weeks of Israeli bombardment.

01:16The group will soon name a new leader to replace Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by an Israeli

01:21strike last month.

01:22Qasem said and insisted a ceasefire will not happen unless Israel withdraws from Gaza.

01:28Meanwhile, Israeli's latest bombardment of central and northern Gaza has killed at least

01:3318 people, including five children, Palestinian health officials said on Wednesday.

01:38Two strikes hit tents for displaced people in Nusayrat and Beresh refugee camps in central

01:42Gaza.

01:43According to Palestinian news reports, the strike hit a crowd who were waiting to collect

01:47water.

01:49The bodies of some of the victims, including three children, were brought to the Al-Aqsa

01:53Martyrs Hospital in the town of Deir al-Balaw.

01:56Blood continues to spill in the region, with no apparent sign of a ceasefire.

02:05According to Viktor Orban, Ukraine cannot win the war and the European Union should

02:09aim for a ceasefire between Kiev and Moscow.

02:13The Hungarian Prime Minister is in Strasbourg, presenting the priorities of the Hungarian

02:17Council Presidency to the European Parliament.

02:21His press conference was interrupted by a member of a Hungarian opposition party.

02:28He threw fake banknotes on the PM, calling him a traitor.

02:35Orban, who is often criticized for being supportive of Russia, told a room packed with reporters

02:40that better communication with President Putin was needed to get a ceasefire.

02:45Quizzed by Euronews, he conceded that in the meantime EU countries could keep up their

02:50military aid to Ukraine on a national basis.

02:53Those who think what we are doing as European Union is good and strategically right, let's

03:01support the Ukrainians.

03:02Don't disagree with that like Hungary, we don't.

03:06That belongs to the national government.

03:09The Hungarian Prime Minister also called for stricter controls to detect migrants at the

03:13borders and hotspots outside the EU.

03:16And he doubled down on the request for his country to be exempt from the new EU migration

03:21policy.

03:25He also still seems ready to send refugees to Brussels to protest against it.

03:30We will respect the European law, we will respect all the regulations, but if somebody

03:38who gets an asylum in Hungary would like to come to Brussels, you know, we are ready to

03:42have them.

03:45Hungary's presidency started in July, but their diplomats have been facing boycotts

03:49and isolation in the EU institutions from the start.

03:53Parliament's rapporteur for the situation, Hungary, believes Orbán is actively undermining

03:58the common European asylum system.

04:03He uses the rhetoric just, you know, to get more, a stronger position, to blackmail in

04:12order to get EU funding.

04:15It's a lot of rhetorics.

04:18And Orbán's biggest prize for the Hungarian presidency?

04:22To get Romania and Bulgaria fully into the Schengen area, apparently.

04:30MEPs have held a debate on the state of the automotive industry as car manufacturers across

04:37the continent continue to face factory closures brought on by sluggish sales.

04:44A key focus of the debate was the decline in demands for European electric vehicles,

04:50a trend that's been exacerbated by rising competition from Chinese manufacturers.

04:56Car sales in the EU are below the pre-COVID level, while China has become the largest

05:02market.

05:03Also, in the third market, the demand has shifted towards zero emission vehicles.

05:09We have set a clear framework for transition to zero emission vehicles with 100% zero emission

05:14cars targeted by 2035.

05:17But critics say the EU's 2035 target is impossible to meet, arguing there is not enough funding

05:24or infrastructure.

05:26A resolution on the issue will be put to a vote in a future session.

05:57French truck drivers are blocking a main motorway in Alsace in protest against the

06:02potential introduction of a heavy goods vehicles tax from 2027.

06:07The new tax, which comes at a cost of 15 cents per kilometre, aims to reduce transit traffic

06:13on the A35 motorway, which sees up to 10,000 trucks pass along it each day.

06:20Many of these lorries use the Alsace motorway to avoid paying the high eco-taxes already

06:25in place on German motorways.

06:30Those working in the transit industry say the addition of this new tax would threaten

06:34the survival of some businesses.

06:51Councilors are set to vote on the proposal on the 21st of October.

06:59The International Monetary Fund is recommending that Europe sticks together in the face of

07:03fragmentation within the single EU market in order to avoid a financial crisis.

07:09As the world grapples with crises emerging one after another, such as Covid and the full-scale

07:13invasion in Ukraine, managing director Kristalina Georgieva says that Europe needs to start

07:19preparing for other shocks to make sure it's not left behind.

07:22It is important for Europe to stand tall on its achievements.

07:29One massively well-performed task to free itself from dependency on Russian oil and

07:38gas.

07:39It has been done remarkably well.

07:42Europe can be proud of it.

07:45Europe can be proud of the attention it pays to the big challenges of today and tomorrow

07:51– climate, demography, technology and, a critical one, fairness in society.

08:00Georgieva says that Europe needs to start by reducing bureaucracy and administrative

08:05inefficiency and to prioritise developing businesses that can compete competitively

08:09on a global level.

08:11Europe should be careful not to be complacent.

08:15The world is moving very rapidly.

08:19Attention to European competitiveness is so important.

08:23Right now, Europe is rightly focused on the immediate task in hand – bring inflation

08:31down.

08:33Big success so far – don't lose sight of data if you need to calibrate appropriately

08:41steps taken in the future.

08:43And very important for Europe – reignite growth.

08:47If growth remains as anemic as it is now, it would be hard for Europe to achieve the

08:56objectives that people here aspire for – a digital, green economy that benefits people

09:05and offers opportunities for businesses.

09:08Liv Stroud, in Berlin, for Euronews.

09:23Beijing brandy is going to face sanctions from China.

09:28From Friday onwards, Beijing intends to apply temporary anti-dumping measures against spirits

09:33– mainly cognac.

09:37Custom duties for EU companies could reach 39% – an increase that will be a painful

09:42blow for the sector.

09:47Today is really a new reality in that sense because it's going to bite.

09:51It's going to bite for the companies at a very short notice, as I said, on Friday.

09:56It's going to be significant amounts in the sense that China is our second largest export

10:02market and in 2023 we exported spirits of around 800 million euros, 90% of that in value

10:09was constituted by brandies, mainly cognac.

10:12Officially, Beijing claims to have proof and good reason for implementing these sanctions.

10:17However, China's decision comes just days after the EU confirmed that it would impose

10:22additional custom duties on Chinese electric cars – a surcharge that has divided the

10:27member states.

10:28China's retaliation seeks to further fracture the Block of 27, as it already planned similar

10:34measures against European dairy products and pork.

10:39Although the term trade war has not been mentioned yet, some MEPs are already calling to present

10:45a united front against the Asian giant.

10:49We need to think as one block.

10:53If we do not act like that, finding the necessary internal compromises, China now, but also

11:00in the future, and maybe other parts of the world will just win any competitiveness, contrast

11:09with us.

11:10We need to use the power of the European market and this is one test for European unity.

11:17I think that without unity we are doomed.

11:20Each of our member states cannot stand a trade war with China.

11:26The European Commission is going to challenge China's decision before the World Trade Organization.

11:31The institution asserts that these measures don't have grounds.

11:38Negotiations between two sides are expected to intensify until the end of October, when

11:42the EU will implement anti-dumping measures on electric vehicles from China.

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